ScoopInstaller
[Feature] Handling installation of UIAccess applications
Feature Request
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Assistive and accessibility software often need higher than usual permissions, which can be granted by enabling uiAccess="true" in their app manifest and installing the executable to a secure location.
From the article Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations:
This policy setting enforces the requirement that apps that request running with a UIAccess integrity level by marking UIAccess=true in their app manifest must reside in a secure location on the file system. Relatively secure locations are limited to the following directories:
- \Program Files\ including subdirectories
- \Windows\system32\
- \Program Files (x86)\ including subdirectories for 64-bit versions of Windows
This is a pain if a user wants to use Scoop for installs. The workaround is to ask users to create a new directory within \Program Files\, and edit their global_path in the scoop config to point to this new directory.
Describe the solution you'd like
A user-friendly way to install to somewhere within \Program Files\. Perhaps a CLI flag?
Is there a particular reason why \ProgramData\Scoop was chosen as the global directory? Otherwise it could make sense to change the default global install location to eg. \Program Files\Scoop\Apps - since \Program Files\ is a more conventional install location as well as handling applications that require installation to this directory.